Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential
Redefining Success
A course by Diana Varma , Writer and Podcast Host
About the video: Redefining Success
Overview
“I'll teach you the ways to reimagine what success looks like in your creative work. Creative living is a marathon, not a sprint, and you should adjust your expectations accordingly. You’ll find new, more helpful metrics (beyond perfectionism) to measure the success of your creative pursuits.”
In this video lesson Diana Varma addresses the topic: Redefining Success, which is part of the Domestika online course: Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential. Learn how to reframe your challenges and turn them into a catalyst for creativity with a framework for success based on your values, intentions, and motives.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Redefining Success In the last lesson, we explored the way that perfection is an illusion. In this lesson, let's redefine success. Here is a diagram that I have adapted from Tim Urban's WaitButWhy. Right down the center marks today, this way we have the past, and over here, we have the future. I'll start by drawing the life paths that are currently closed to you. These are no longer open. This represents your path to date. Here's where you are today. If these are all of the paths that are now closed to you because this is the one path that you have chosen to travel down, that doesn't mean...”
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Course summary for: Building Creative Confidence: Unleash your Potential
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Business, Communication, Creativity
Diana Varma
A course by Diana Varma
Diana Varma is a writer, educator, and podcaster. She started her career in the printing industry, but always knew she wanted to teach. Since earning an MA in communication and technology, she’s been sharing her knowledge as a lecturer at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her passion is helping students connect their technical left brains with their creative right brains for fulfilling careers in creative industries.
In her free time, Diana writes, produces, and hosts the podcast Talk Paper Scissors, where she explores topics ranging from design and branding to typography and printing. She’s also written more than 150 articles on these subjects for Graphic Arts Magazine. Diana is a member of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers and, in 2019, won a Dean’s teaching award for her lectures.
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